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The Langham Huntington, Pasadena
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The Langham Huntington, Pasadena is a luxury resort hotel located in Pasadena, California that dates back to the Gilded Age. The original hotel on the site was built by General Marshall C, Wentworth, a Civil War veteran, and designed by Charles Frederick Whittlesey in the Spanish Mission Revival-style. It opened in February 1907 as the Hotel Wentworth, but the structure was partially complete, with the first four stories finished. The hotels completion had been delayed due to a shortage of construction crews caused by rebuilding in San Francisco following the 1906 earthquake, heavy rains that year kept away prospective guests, and the Wentworth closed its doors in July 1907 after its first season. It remained under Huntingtons management until 1918, the hotel eventually comprised over 20 acres. Between 1920 and 1926,27 bungalow cottages were built on the grounds to accommodate long-term guests, californias first outdoor Olympic-size swimming pool was also added to the hotel in 1926, when the hotel, formerly a winter resort, began operating year-round. The hotel was owned by Stephen W. Royce, who sold it to the Sheraton Corporation in 1954. It was subsequently renamed the Huntington-Sheraton Hotel, as a Sheraton, much of the hotels interior period detailing was covered over, and the Lanai Building was constructed next to the swimming pool in 1967. Sheraton sold the hotel to Keikyu U. S. A. Inc. in 1974, in the wake of the disastrous 1985 Mexico City earthquake, seismic tests conducted on the hotel showed the main building to be unsafe. The main wing closed on October 20,1985, the 89 rooms in the 1967 Lanai wing and the 18 cottage homes remained in operation as the Huntington Sheraton Lanai and Cottages, while the six-story main building sat vacant. After a year of debate and numerous pleas from preservationists, Pasadena voters chose on May 19,1987, HHA bought the hotel from Keikyu in December 1987. Sheraton ceased operating the hotel in January 1988, and it was renamed the The Huntington Hotel & Cottages. The contents of the building were sold to the public in June and July 1988 and demolition of the main building began on March 27,1989. The lanai and cottages closed in mid-1990 as construction of the new main building progressed, the hotel reopened on March 18,1991 with 383-rooms as the The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel. The new building largely replicated the exterior of the original, and it was renamed The Ritz-Carlton, Huntington Hotel & Spa in April 1998. In October 2007, the hotel was sold to Great Eagle Holdings for $170 million and renamed The Langham Huntington, Pasadena, on January 8,2008, the hotel is featured as The Huntington Sheraton in the 1956 home movie Disneyland Dream. There is a Huntington Sheraton sign appearing in the 1982 pilot episode of the TV series Remington Steele The 2007 film Charlie Wilsons War was filmed in the Georgian Ballroom, the 2012 film Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3 was also filmed throughout the hotel as well. The Langham Huntington was the site for the much-publicized 2012 wedding of The Bachelorettes Ashley Hebert, the hotel is featured in a 3rd-season episode of Scarecrow & Mrs. King This hotel is featured in the 1998 Disney movie The Parent Trap as the Stafford Hotel

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EZ Streets
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EZ Streets is an American television drama series created by Paul Haggis. It premiered on CBS on October 27,1996 with a two-hour pilot telefilm, the series stars Ken Olin, Joe Pantoliano, and Jason Gedrick. The series is set in a decaying American city located near the Canada–US border, and deals with the lives of the citys criminals, politicians. Ken Olin as Detective Cameron Quinn Joe Pantoliano as Jimmy Murtha Jason Gedrick as Danny Rooney R. D, the series was relaunched that spring from March 1,1997 to April 2,1997, but failed to garner a substantial audience. CBS canceled EZ Streets in April 1997 due to low ratings, the last episode, Neither Have I Wings to Fly, never aired on CBS. Critics criticized Moonves for not reairing the pilot and first series episode before the relaunch, pilot Every Picture Tells a Story A Terrible Beauty St. S. All episodes, including the one not shown on CBS, were aired. On May 23,2006, Universal Studios released the two part pilot and the episodes Every Dog Has Its Day and One Acquainted with the Night on a single DVD as part of its Brilliant But Cancelled series and it remains to be seen if future episodes will be forthcoming. EZ Streets at the Internet Movie Database EZ Streets at TV. com The Wild The Not So Innocence and the EZ Streets, Why Did CBS Cancel the Years Best Show

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Drew Carey
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Drew Allison Carey is an American actor, comedian, sports executive, and game show host. Both of which aired on ABC, Carey has appeared in several films, television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer game. He has hosted the game show The Price Is Right since 2007 on CBS. He is interested in a variety of sports, has worked as a photographer at U. S. National Team soccer games, Carey has written an autobiography, Dirty Jokes and Beer, Stories of the Unrefined, detailing his early life and television career. Carey is the youngest of Lewis and Beulah Careys three sons and raised in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland, Ohio, when Drew was eight years old, his father died from a brain tumor. He played the cornet and trumpet in the band of James Ford Rhodes High School. He continued on to college at Kent State University and was expelled twice for poor academic performance and he left KSU after three years. After leaving the university, Carey enlisted into the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1979 and he moved to Las Vegas for a few months in 1983, and for a short time worked as a bank teller and a waiter at Dennys. In 1985, he began his career by following up on a suggestion by David Lawrence to go to the library. The following year, after winning an open-microphone contest, he became Master of Ceremonies at the Cleveland Comedy Club and he performed at comedy clubs over the next few years in Cleveland and Los Angeles. He first came to the eye as a comedian when he competed in the 1988 Star Search. Carey was working as a comedian when he appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson in November 1991. His performance that night impressed Carson, who invited Carey to the next to his desk. In that same year, Carey joined the 14th Annual Young Comedians Special on HBO, in 1994, Carey wrote his own stand-up comedy special, Drew Carey, Human Cartoon, which aired on Showtime and won a CableACE Award for Best Writing. His early stand-up career led to supporting roles on television shows, in 1993, Carey had a small role in the film Coneheads as a taxi passenger. In 1994, Carey co-starred with John Caponera in The Good Life, after the show was cancelled, Bruce Helford, a writer on the show, hired Carey as a consultant for the television show Someone Like Me. After their stint on Someone Like Me, Carey and Helford developed and produced the storyline for The Drew Carey Show, the sitcom revolved around a fictionalized version of Carey, as he took on the stresses of life and work with his group of childhood friends. The show premiered on September 13,1995 on ABC, in his autobiography, Carey revealed his frustration with having to deal with censors and being unable to employ the off-color humor common in his stand-up routines

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CBS
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CBS is an American commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation. The company is headquartered at the CBS Building in New York City with major facilities and operations in New York City. CBS is sometimes referred to as the Eye Network, in reference to the iconic logo. It has also called the Tiffany Network, alluding to the perceived high quality of CBS programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBSs first demonstrations of color television, the network has its origins in United Independent Broadcasters Inc. a collection of 16 radio stations that was purchased by Paley in 1928 and renamed the Columbia Broadcasting System. Under Paleys guidance, CBS would first become one of the largest radio networks in the United States, in 1974, CBS dropped its former full name and became known simply as CBS, Inc. In 2000, CBS came under the control of Viacom, which was formed as a spin-off of CBS in 1971, CBS Corporation is controlled by Sumner Redstone through National Amusements, which also controls the current Viacom. The television network has more than 240 owned-and-operated and affiliated stations throughout the United States. The origins of CBS date back to January 27,1927, Columbia Phonographic went on the air on September 18,1927, with a presentation by the Howard Barlow Orchestra from flagship station WOR in Newark, New Jersey, and fifteen affiliates. Operational costs were steep, particularly the payments to AT&T for use of its land lines, in early 1928 Judson sold the network to brothers Isaac and Leon Levy, owners of the networks Philadelphia affiliate WCAU, and their partner Jerome Louchenheim. With the record out of the picture, Paley quickly streamlined the corporate name to Columbia Broadcasting System. He believed in the power of advertising since his familys La Palina cigars had doubled their sales after young William convinced his elders to advertise on radio. By September 1928, Paley bought out the Louchenheim share of CBS, during Louchenheims brief regime, Columbia paid $410,000 to A. H. Grebes Atlantic Broadcasting Company for a small Brooklyn station, WABC, which would become the networks flagship station. WABC was quickly upgraded, and the relocated to 860 kHz. The physical plant was relocated also – to Steinway Hall on West 57th Street in Manhattan, by the turn of 1929, the network could boast to sponsors of having 47 affiliates. Paley moved right away to put his network on a financial footing. In the fall of 1928, he entered talks with Adolph Zukor of Paramount Pictures. The deal came to fruition in September 1929, Paramount acquired 49% of CBS in return for a block of its stock worth $3.8 million at the time

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Homicide: Life on the Street
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Homicide, Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Departments Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded by Homicide, The Movie, the series was originally based on David Simons book Homicide, A Year on the Killing Streets. Many of the characters and stories used throughout the show were based on events depicted in the book, while Homicide featured an ensemble cast, Andre Braugher emerged as a breakout star through his portrayal of Detective Frank Pembleton. The show won Television Critics Association Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Drama in 1996,1997 and it also became the first drama ever to win three Peabody Awards for drama in 1993,1995, and 1997. It received recognition from the Primetime Emmy Awards, Satellite Awards, Image Awards, Viewers for Quality Television, GLAAD Media Awards, in 1997, the episode Prison Riot was ranked No.32 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. In 2007, it was listed as one of Time magazines Best TV Shows of All-TIME, in 1996, TV Guide named the series The Best Show Youre Not Watching. The show placed #46 on Entertainment Weeklys New TV Classics list, in 2013, TV Guide ranked it #55 on its list of the 60 Best Series of All Time. Simon, who became a consultant and producer with the series, while detectives are typically portrayed as noble characters who care deeply about their victims, Simon believed real detectives regarded violence as a normal aspect of their jobs. Levinson approached screenwriter Paul Attanasio with the material, and Homicide became Attanasios first foray into television writing, Levinson was indifferent to the change, asserting that viewers would probably casually refer to the series as Homicide in either case. The opening theme music was composed by Baltimore native Lynn F. Kowal, Homicides purpose was to provide its viewers with a no-nonsense, police procedural-type glimpse into the lives of a squad of inner-city detectives. In its attempt to do so, Homicide developed a trademark feel, for example, the series was filmed with hand-held 16 mm cameras almost entirely on-location in Baltimore. It also regularly used music montages, jump cut editing, the episodes were also noted for interweaving as many as three or four storylines in a single episode. NBC executives often asked the writers to focus on a homicide case rather than multiple ones. Despite premiering in the coveted post-Super Bowl time slot, the show opened to lackluster ratings, Homicide consistently ranked behind ABCs 20/20 and CBSs Nash Bridges in the Nielsen ratings. Despite the poor ratings, reviews were strong from the beginning of the series. Commentators were especially impressed with the number of strong, complex, well-developed and non-stereotypical African American characters like Pembleton, Lewis. The police department scenes were shot at the historic City Recreation Pier in the Fells Point neighborhood in Baltimore, nevertheless, in its attempt to improve Homicides ratings, NBC often insisted on changes, both cosmetic and thematic. For example, by the beginning of the season, talented

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NBC
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The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is the flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is part of the Big Three television networks, founded in 1926 by the Radio Corporation of America, NBC is the oldest major broadcast network in the United States. Following the acquisition by GE, Bob Wright served as executive officer of NBC, remaining in that position until his retirement in 2007. In 2003, French media company Vivendi merged its entertainment assets with GE, Comcast purchased a controlling interest in the company in 2011, and acquired General Electrics remaining stake in 2013. Following the Comcast merger, Zucker left NBC Universal and was replaced as CEO by Comcast executive Steve Burke, during a period of early broadcast business consolidation, radio manufacturer Radio Corporation of America acquired New York City radio station WEAF from American Telephone & Telegraph. Westinghouse, a shareholder in RCA, had an outlet in Newark, New Jersey pioneer station WJZ. This station was transferred from Westinghouse to RCA in 1923, WEAF acted as a laboratory for AT&Ts manufacturing and supply outlet Western Electric, whose products included transmitters and antennas. The Bell System, AT&Ts telephone utility, was developing technologies to transmit voice- and music-grade audio over short and long distances, the 1922 creation of WEAF offered a research-and-development center for those activities. WEAF maintained a schedule of radio programs, including some of the first commercially sponsored programs. In an early example of chain or networking broadcasting, the station linked with Outlet Company-owned WJAR in Providence, Rhode Island, AT&T refused outside companies access to its high-quality phone lines. The early effort fared poorly, since the telegraph lines were susceptible to atmospheric. In 1925, AT&T decided that WEAF and its network were incompatible with the companys primary goal of providing a telephone service. AT&T offered to sell the station to RCA in a deal that included the right to lease AT&Ts phone lines for network transmission, the divisions ownership was split among RCA, its founding corporate parent General Electric and Westinghouse. NBC officially started broadcasting on November 15,1926, WEAF and WJZ, the flagships of the two earlier networks, were operated side-by-side for about a year as part of the new NBC. On April 5,1927, NBC expanded to the West Coast with the launch of the NBC Orange Network and this was followed by the debut of the NBC Gold Network, also known as the Pacific Gold Network, on October 18,1931. The Orange Network carried Red Network programming, and the Gold Network carried programming from the Blue Network, initially, the Orange Network recreated Eastern Red Network programming for West Coast stations at KPO in San Francisco. The Orange Network name was removed from use in 1936, at the same time, the Gold Network became part of the Blue Network. In the 1930s, NBC also developed a network for shortwave radio stations, in 1927, NBC moved its operations to 711 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, occupying the upper floors of a building designed by architect Floyd Brown

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The Odyssey (miniseries)
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The Odyssey is a 1997 American fantasy–adventure television miniseries based on the ancient Greek epic poem by Homer, The Odyssey. Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky, the aired in two-parts beginning on May 18,1997 on NBC. The series won the award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Special and it was filmed in Malta, Turkey, parts of England, and many other places around the Mediterranean, where the story takes place. The cast includes Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Irene Papas, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Christopher Lee, and Vanessa Williams. Odysseus, the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Ithaca, is called to service in the Trojan War after the birth of his son Telemachus, much to the dismay of his wife Queen Penelope. Odysseus is worried that he may not return, and tells Penelope that she should remarry by the time Telemachus is a man if he not return. The war lasts ten years, during which Greeces best soldier, Achilles, is killed, laocoön tries to warn the Trojans of a vision of this, but is suddenly devoured by a sea monster. Odysseus and his men initially stop on an island dominated by one-eyed giants, a Cyclops named Polyphemus traps them in his cave intending to eat them, but Odysseus gets him drunk on wine, causing him to pass out. Then, he sharpens a tree branch into a stake and blinds the Cyclops, Polyphemus screams for help, but Odysseus had tricked him into stating that his name was Nobody, so the Cyclops is shouting that nobody has tricked him, arousing no suspicion. Odysseus and his men escape, but Odysseus taunts the Cyclops who asks his father Poseidon to avenge him and this makes Odysseus journey home harder. Odysseus travels to an island where Aeolus provides him with a bag of wind to help him home, one of his men opens it prematurely blowing them off course. Next, they stop at the island of Circe, a beautiful witch, Odysseus is told of Circes magic by Hermes, who helps him avoid being transformed as well. Odysseus digs his ship out of the sand and tide and sails to the Underworld, arriving at the Underworld, Tiresias torments Odysseus, recognizing his courage and wit, but criticizes his ego and foolishness. After Odysseus sacrifices a goat into the River Styx, Tiresias tells him that the way home will take him past a treacherous isle where the monsters Scylla. As he is running in terror from the underworld, he meets his mother Anticlea and she informs him that back on Ithaca there are multiple suitors, including Eurymachus, vying with each other to marry Penelope for her money and power. Odysseus boat nears the isle of Scylla and Charybdis, scyllas six serpentine heads wreak havoc on the crew, killing many. Everyone but Odysseus is killed when Charybdis creates a whirlpool and destroys his ship, Odysseus arrives on the island where Calypso lives and becomes her prisoner. Meanwhile, Odysseus now 15-year-old son Telemachus tries to find his father and is told by Athena to travel to Sparta, when Telemachus finds Menelaus, one of Odysseus comrades, he learns that he doesnt know what happened to Odysseus but believes him to be dead

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Seinfeld
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Seinfeld is an American sitcom that originally ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998. It was created by Larry David and Jerry Seinfeld, the latter starring as a version of himself. It is often described as being a show about nothing, as many of its episodes are about the minutiae of daily life, Seinfeld was produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. In syndication, the series has been distributed by Sony Pictures Television since 2002, a favorite among critics, the series led the Nielsen ratings in seasons six and nine, and finished among the top two every year from 1994 to 1998. In 2002, TV Guide named Seinfeld the greatest television program of all time, E. named it the number 1 reason the 90s ruled. In 2013, the Writers Guild of America named Seinfeld the No.2 Best Written TV Series of All Time and that same year, Entertainment Weekly named it the No.3 best TV series of all time and TV Guide ranked it at No.2. Main Jerry Seinfeld – Jerry is a minor celeb stand-up comedian who is depicted as the voice of reason amidst the general insanity generated by the people in his world. The in-show character is a mild germaphobe and neat freak, as well as an avid Superman, New York Mets, Jerrys apartment is the center of a world visited by his eccentric friends and a focus of the show. Plot lines often involve Jerrys social interactions and romantic relationships around New York City and he typically finds minor, pedantic reasons to break up with women, including a habit of eating peas one at a time, oversized man hands and an irritating laugh. Other plot lines involve his longtime enemy Newman and his overbearing relatives, Elaine Benes – Elaine is Jerrys ex-girlfriend and later friend. She is attractive and genial, while also being humorous, arrogant and she sometimes has a tendency to be too honest with people, which often gets her into trouble. She usually gets caught up in her boyfriends quirks, eccentric employers unusual behaviors and idiosyncrasies, and she tends to make poor choices in men she chooses to date and is often overly reactionary. First she works at Pendant Publishing with Mr. Lippman, is hired as a personal assistant for Mr. Pitt. One of Elaines trademark moves is her forceful shove while exclaiming Get Out, when she receives good, objectionable or surprising news. Another is her memorable Little Kicks dance move, which is described as a full body heave accompanied by a double-fisted thumbs-up and she hates The English Patient, which is met with significant social disapproval. Elaine is popularly described as an amalgamation of Davids and Seinfelds girlfriends during their days in New York as struggling comedians. Cosmo Kramer – Kramer is Jerrys wacky neighbor and his trademarks include his humorous upright pompadour hairstyle, vintage clothes, and energetic sliding bursts through Jerrys apartment door. Kramer was heavily based on a neighbor of Davids during his amateur comedic years in Manhattan and this is seen in his success with women and employers

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The X-Files
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The X-Files is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter, which originally aired from September 10,1993 to May 19,2002 on Fox. The program spanned nine seasons, included 202 episodes, and a film of the same name. Later in 2008, a film was made and preceded a tenth season revival. The series revolves around FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files, early in the series, both agents become pawns in a larger conflict and come to trust only each other and a very few select people. The agents also discover an agenda of the government to keep the existence of life a secret. They develop a relationship which begins as a platonic friendship. In addition to the story arc, Monster-of-the-Week episodes form roughly two-thirds of all episodes. When creating the characters, Carter sought to reverse gender stereotypes by making Mulder a believer. The first seven seasons featured Duchovny and Anderson equally, in the last two seasons, Anderson took precedence while Duchovny appeared intermittently. New main characters were introduced, FBI agents John Doggett and Monica Reyes, Mulder and Scullys boss, Assistant Director Walter Skinner, also became a main character. The first five seasons of The X-Files were filmed and produced in Vancouver, British Columbia, the series later returned to Vancouver to film The X-Files, I Want to Believe as well as the tenth season of the series. The X-Files was a hit for the Fox network and received positive reviews. Initially considered a series, it turned into a pop culture touchstone that tapped into public mistrust of governments and large institutions and embraced conspiracy theories. Both the series itself and lead actors Duchovny and Anderson received multiple awards and nominations, the series also spawned a franchise which includes The Lone Gunmen spin-off, two theatrical films and accompanying merchandise. The revival premiered on January 24,2016, the X-Files follows the careers and personal lives of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. Mulder is a profiler and strong believer in the supernatural. He is also adamant about the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life and this set of beliefs earns him the nickname Spooky Mulder and an assignment to a little-known department that deals with unsolved cases, known as the X-Files. His belief in the springs from the claimed abduction of his sister Samantha Mulder by extraterrestrials when Mulder was 12

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Fox Broadcasting Company
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The Fox Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcast television network that is owned by the Fox Entertainment Group subsidiary of 21st Century Fox. It is the third largest major network in the world based on total revenues, assets. Launched on October 9,1986 as a competitor to the Big Three television networks, Fox and its affiliated companies operate many entertainment channels in international markets, although these do not necessarily air the same programming as the U. S. network. Most viewers in Canada have access to at least one U. S, the network is named after sister company 20th Century Fox, and indirectly for producer William Fox, who founded one of the movie studios predecessors, Fox Film. Fox is a member of the North American Broadcasters Association and the National Association of Broadcasters, 20th Century Fox had been involved in television production as early as the 1950s, producing several syndicated programs. Following the demise of the DuMont Television Network in August of that year after it became mired in financial problems. 20th Century Fox would also produce original content for the NTA network, KTTV in Los Angeles, KRIV in Houston, WFLD-TV in Chicago, and KRLD-TV in Dallas. In October 1985, 20th Century Fox announced its intentions to form a television network that would compete with ABC, CBS. The plans were to use the combination of the Fox studios, organizational plans for the network were held off until the Metromedia acquisitions cleared regulatory hurdles. Then, in December 1985, Rupert Murdoch agreed to pay $325 million to acquire the remaining equity in TCF Holdings from his original partner, Marvin Davis. These first six stations, then broadcasting to a reach of 22% of the nations households. Except for KDAF, all of the original owned-and-operated stations are part of the Fox network today. Like the core O&O group, Foxs affiliate body consisted of independent stations. The Fox Broadcasting Company launched at 11,00 p. m. Eastern and its inaugural program was a late-night talk show, The Late Show, which was hosted by comedian Joan Rivers. By early 1987, Rivers quit The Late Show after disagreements with the network over the creative direction. The network expanded its programming into prime time on April 5,1987, with Children and the sketch comedy series The Tracey Ullman Show. Fox added one new show per week over the several weeks, with the drama 21 Jump Street. On July 11, the network rolled out its Saturday night schedule with the premiere of the drama series Werewolf

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The Larry Sanders Show
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The Larry Sanders Show is an American television sitcom set in the office and studio of a fictional late-night talk show. The series was created by Garry Shandling and Dennis Klein and aired from August 1992 to May 1998 on the HBO cable television network, the series stars Shandling, Jeffrey Tambor, and Rip Torn and features celebrities playing exaggerated, self-parodying versions of themselves. The show has its roots in Shandlings stand-up comedy background, his experience as a guest host on The Tonight Show and his earlier sitcom Its Garry Shandlings Show. The program has had a marked and long-lasting influence on HBO as well as on shows in the US and Britain such as Curb Your Enthusiasm,30 Rock. The supporting cast includes Janeane Garofalo, Wallace Langham, Penny Johnson, Linda Doucett, Scott Thompson, Garry Shandling took a slightly different path with the cable network sitcoms The Larry Sanders Show and its forerunner Its Garry Shandlings Show. In Its Garry Shandlings Show, Shandling makes use of the George Burns technique of addressing the audience. He speaks to the studio and home audiences as well as the other actors, in both shows celebrity guests appear as themselves and Shandling essentially plays himself, a star of a television show and stand-up comedian with a distinctive comic persona and rhythm. I thought I could make the show look very real so the audience would buy that part. In 1981, Shandling performed a routine on The Tonight Show and subsequently became a regular guest. He also began appearing as a guest host and, in 1986 and he was considered to be a possible, although unlikely, successor to Johnny Carson. After Jay Leno replaced Carson in 1992, Shandling was offered his own talk show but preferred instead to create a show about a talk-show. Alex Pareene commented Shandling turned down hosting a late night show to do a brilliant cult hit sitcom about a version of himself who took the deal. The show follows the production of a late night talk show The Larry Sanders Show. It chronicles the life of host Larry, producer Arthur Artie, sidekick Hank Kingsley and their interaction with celebrity guests. Episodes focus on the professional and personal lives of the principal characters, ancillary characters are also featured, among them the writers Phil and Jerry, talent bookers Paula and Mary Lou, and the personal assistants Beverly, Darlene and Brian. Larrys wife, ex-wife and girlfriends are frequent sources of conflict, a typical early episode opens to the titles with the sound of Hanks audience warm-up routine in the background. This is followed by the shows titles and an excerpt from Larrys monologue. Episodes vary after this, sometimes continuing with the studio recording, the Larry Sanders Show is a satire on show business that mixes fact with fiction

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HBO
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Home Box Office is an American premium cable and satellite television network that is owned by Time Warner through its respective flagship company Home Box Office, Inc. HBO is the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, in 2014, HBO had an adjusted operating income of US$1.79 billion, compared to the US$1.68 billion it accrued in 2013. HBO has 49 million subscribers in the United States and 130 million worldwide as of 2016, the network provides seven 24-hour multiplex channels, including HBO Comedy, HBO Latino, HBO Signature and HBO Family. It launched the streaming service HBO Now in April 2015, and has over 2 million subscribers in the United States as of February 2017. In addition to its U. S. subscriber base, HBO distributes content in at least 151 countries, HBO subscribers generally pay for an extra tier of service that includes other cable- and satellite-exclusive channels even before paying for the channel itself. Cable providers can require the use of a converter box – usually digital – in order to receive HBO, many HBO programs have been syndicated to other networks and broadcast television stations, and a number of HBO-produced series and films have been released on DVD. The new system, which Dolan named Sterling Information Services, became the first urban underground cable system in the United States. In that same year, Time-Life, Inc. purchased a 20% stake in Dolans company, in the summer of 1971, while on a family vacation in France, Charles Dolan began to think of ideas to make Sterling Manhattan profitable. He came up with the concept for a television service. Dolan later presented his idea to Time-Life management, though satellite distribution seemed only a distant possibility at the time, he persuaded Time-Life to back him on the project. To gauge whether consumers would be interested in subscribing to a pay television service, in a meeting of Dolan and some Time-Life executives who were working on the project, various other names were discussed for the new service. Home Box Office launched on November 8,1972, however, HBOs launch came without fanfare in the press, as it was not covered by any local or national media outlets. Home Box Office distributed its first sports event immediately after the film, Four months later in February 1973, Home Box Office aired its first television special, the Pennsylvania Polka Festival. Home Box Office would use a network of relay towers to distribute its programming to cable systems throughout its service area. Sterling Manhattan Cable continued to lose money because the company had only a small base of 20,000 customers in Manhattan. Time-Life dropped the Sterling name and the company was renamed Manhattan Cable Television under Time-Lifes control in March 1973, Gerald Levin, who had been with Home Box Office since it began operations as its vice president of programming, replaced Dolan as the companys president and chief executive officer. In September 1973, Time-Life, Inc. completed its acquisition of the pay service. HBO would eventually increase its fortunes within two years, by April 1975, the service had around 100,000 subscribers in Pennsylvania and New York state, in 1974, they settled on using a geostationary communications satellite to transmit HBO to cable providers throughout the United States

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3rd Rock from the Sun
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3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, the extraterrestrials pose as a human family to observe the behavior of human beings. Humor was principally derived from the attempts to study human society and, because of their living as humans themselves while on Earth. This show reflects human life from the perspective of aliens and many sources of humor are from the experiences the alien characters have. Most of the episodes are named after the protagonist Dick, in later episodes, they are more accustomed to Earth and often are more interested in their human lives than in their mission. Dr. Mary Albright is a professor of anthropology at Pendelton State University, furthermore, these four alien researchers end up looking more or less like joyriders as they get drawn further and further into human life. Dick Solomon, the High Commander and leader of the expedition, is the provider as a physics professor at Pendelton. The show also involves their relationships with humans, mostly their love interests, the family often communicates through Harry with their off-world boss, the Big Giant Head, who when he finally visits Earth, appears in the body of William Shatner. Harry unexpectedly stands up, his arms stiff, and proclaims and their original forms, for example, are described as nonsexual, with reproduction a matter of sending packets of genetic material to each other in the mail. Leaders like the Big Giant Head are unelected and assumed infallible, the upshot is that living in an Earth culture provides the Solomons with an almost intolerable degree of emotional stimulation and conflict. Although they are ill-equipped to handle such an emotional maelstrom, they love it, several episodes feature send-ups of TV and films. For example, in the episode Dicks Big Giant Headache, both Dick and the Big Giant Head mention seeing something on the wing of the plane after having traveled by airline. That was a nod to both Lithgow and Shatner having played the role of the passenger who sees a gremlin on the wing in The Twilight Zone. Occasionally, references would be made to specific features of the abilities and of their experiences on their own world. The theme of the idiot savant repeatedly resurfaces, since each member of the family makes up for their extreme naïveté with some special skill owing to their alien nature. A segment from an episode has him reading a passage from A Brief History of Time and laughing at Stephen Hawkings description of virtual particles quipping, These Earth people will swallow anything. Even so, Dick is often shown as the member of the family with the least to recommend in terms of his ability, leading them to question his right to command. Sally, for instance, is depicted as not only having an attractive body, but also being amazingly physically strong and fit, able to fight and defeat large groups of men much larger than her

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Frasier
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Frasier is an American sitcom that was broadcast on NBC for eleven seasons, premiering on September 16,1993, and concluding on May 13,2004. The program was created and produced by David Angell, Peter Casey, the series was created as a spin-off of Cheers, continuing the story of psychiatrist Frasier Crane as he returned to his hometown of Seattle and started building a new life. Frasier stars Kelsey Grammer, David Hyde Pierce, John Mahoney, Jane Leeves, Peri Gilpin, psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane returns to his home town of Seattle, Washington, following the end of his marriage and his life in Boston. Frasier hires Daphne Moon as Martins live-in physical therapist and care giver, Frasier frequently spends time with his younger brother Niles, a fellow psychiatrist. Niles becomes obsessed with, and eventually falls in love with, Daphne, Frasier hosts The Dr. Frasier Crane Show, a call-in psychiatry show on talk radio station KACL. His producer Roz Doyle is very different from Frasier in many ways and she is down-to-earth, has basic tastes and, at least early in the series, has superficial relationships with many men. However, Roz and Frasier share a professional respect and over time they become best friends, Frasier and the others often visit the local coffee shop, Café Nervosa. The Crane sons, who possess fine tastes, intellectual interests, the brothers close relationship is often tense, and their sibling rivalry intermittently results in chaos. Niles Crane, Frasiers younger brother, also a psychiatrist, who works in private practice, Martin Crane, Frasier and Niless father, a police officer who was forced to retire by a gunshot wound to his hip that led to his living with Frasier. Daphne Moon, an English physiotherapist, hired by Frasier to help take care of Martin, Roz Doyle, the producer of Frasiers radio show, who becomes a close family friend. Eddie, Martin Cranes Jack Russell terrier, Bob Bulldog Briscoe, the male chauvinist, horny, boastful host of a sports radio talk show that followed Frasiers daily broadcast at KACL. He became a regular cast member for Seasons 4 through 6, noel Shempsky, KACL technical assistant and avid Star Trek aficionado who speaks Klingon, in love with Roz. Gil Chesterton, KACLs flamboyant, effeminate restaurant critic. Bebe Glazer, Frasiers manipulative, amoral agent, who is loathed by Frasiers family, the main cast remained unchanged for all 11 years. Grammer was briefly the highest paid actor in the United States for his portrayal of Frasier. Grammer had been the voice of Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons since 1990, in a 1997 episode, the characters brother, Cecil Terwilliger, was introduced, played by Pierce, as referenced in the episode title, Brother from Another Series. The episode contained numerous Frasier references, Pierce returned as Cecil for the second time alongside Grammer in the 2007 episode Funeral for a Fiend. The episode introduced the brothers father, Dr. Robert Terwilliger, cast member reunions also occurred on four episodes of Hot in Cleveland, which featured Leeves in the main cast along with Wendie Malick. In the Season 2 episode Unseparated at Birth and Season 3 episode Funeral Crashers, Gilpin appears in the episode I Love Lucci, and Tom McGowan appears in Love Thy Neighbor as a casting director

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King of the Hill
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King of the Hill is a slice of life animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels that ran from January 12,1997 to May 6,2010 on Fox. It centers on the Hills, a middle-class American family in the city of Arlen. It attempts to retain a realistic approach, seeking humor in the conventional, the series popularity led to worldwide syndication, and reruns aired nightly on Adult Swim. The show became one of Foxs longest-running series, and briefly held the record for the second longest running animated sitcom in history, in 2007, it was named by Time magazine as one of the top 100 greatest television shows of all time. The title theme was written and performed by The Refreshments, King of the Hill won two Emmy Awards and was nominated for seven. The series had a total of 259 episodes over the course of its 13 seasons, the series finale aired on the Fox Network on September 13,2009. Four episodes from the season were to have aired on Fox, but later aired in syndication on local stations from May 3 to 6,2010. King of the Hill was a joint production by 3 Arts Entertainment, Deedle-Dee Productions, Judgemental Films, King of the Hill is set in the fictional suburbanesq town of Arlen, Texas. The show centers around the Hill family, whose head is the ever-responsible, hard-working, loyal, disciplined, the pun title refers to Hank as the head of the family as well as metaphorically to the childrens game King of the Hill. Hank is employed as an assistant manager at Strickland Propane, selling propane and propane accessories. He is very traditional and moral, and he takes good care of his dog, Ladybird. Her overconfidence and trusting nature often leads her into getting involved in schemes that Peggy doesnt recognize as criminal or irresponsible until its too late. Hank and Peggys only child, Bobby Hill, is a husky pre-pubescent boy who is friendly and well-liked, but not very bright. Throughout the series, Peggys niece, Luanne Platter, the daughter of her scheming brother Hoyt and his alcoholic ex-wife Leanne, lives with the Hill family. Naïve and very emotional, Luanne was originally encouraged to move out by her Uncle Hank, over the course of the series, Luanne works as a beauty technician and puppeteer at a local cable access TV station. Luanne later marries Elroy Lucky Kleinschmidt, an independently wealthy layabout who lives on the settlements he earns from frivolous lawsuits, Hank has a healthy relationship with his mother, Tillie, a kind woman who lives in Arizona. Hank is, at first, uncomfortable with his mother dating Gary, a Jewish man, in contrast, Hank has a love/hate relationship with his shin-less father, Col. Cotton Hill, a veteran of World War II who verbally abused Tillie during their marriage

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Law & Order
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Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13,1990, and completed its 20th, at the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television. Its record of 20 seasons is a tie with Gunsmoke for the longest-running live-action scripted American prime-time series with ongoing characters, although it has fewer episodes than Gunsmoke, Law & Order ranks as the longest-running hour-long primetime TV series. Gunsmoke, for its first six seasons, was originally a half-hour program, plots are often based on real cases that recently made headlines, although the motivation for the crime and the perpetrator may be different. The show has been noted for its revolving cast over the years, the success of the series has led to the creation of additional shows, making Law & Order a franchise, with also a television film, several video games, and international adaptations of the series. It has won and has been nominated for awards over the years. On May 14,2010, NBC announced that it had canceled Law & Order, in July 2010, however, he indicated that those attempts had failed and declared that the series had now moved to the history books. However, in February 2015, rumors started that NBC was planning to bring the back for 10 episodes. In May 2015, former star Sam Waterston announced to The Hollywood Reporter that he supports and would join a revival of Law & Order, saying, Youre darn right. Creator Dick Wolf has expressed wanting to use a L&O revival to do a ripped from the headlines story-line surrounding the trial of Robert Durst. Everybody who knows me knows its something I want to do, he continued, at the 2015 Television Critics Association summer press tour, Wolf noted everyone wants a revival, It is a question of. Most of the involved are very successful in their careers. To try to get everything in sequence is more difficult than it looks on the outside. I would love to do it if we can make it work, in 1988, Dick Wolf developed a concept for a new television series that would depict a relatively optimistic picture of the American criminal justice system. He initially toyed with the idea of calling it Night & Day, the first half of each episode would follow two detectives and their commanding officer as they investigate a violent crime. The second half of the episode would follow the District Attorneys Office, through this, Law & Order would be able to investigate some of the larger issues of the day by focusing on stories that were based on real cases making headlines. Wolf took the idea to then-president of Universal Television Kerry McCluggage, who pointed out the similarity to a 1963 series titled Arrest and Trial, which lasted one season

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NYPD Blue
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NYPD Blue is an American police procedural drama television series set in New York City, exploring the struggles of the fictional 15th Precinct detective squad in Manhattan. Each episode typically intertwines several plots involving an ensemble cast, the series was originally broadcast on the ABC network, debuted on September 21, 1993‚ and aired its final episode on March 1,2005. It was ABCs longest-running primetime one-hour drama series until Greys Anatomy surpassed it in 2016, in 1997, True Confessions, written by Art Monterastelli and directed by Charles Haid, was ranked #36 on TV Guides 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Produced by 20th Century Fox and Steven Bochco Productions, film production took place in the greater Los Angeles area. The show did film in New York but only for shots that used New York landmarks. In the final season the show was filmed only in Los Angeles to save money, exterior shots of the 15th Precinct used the former 9th Precinct building on Fifth Street in New York City, also used for Kojak. Once it was demolished, the façade was recreated on a Los Angeles lot, the show was initially a vehicle for David Caruso. John Kelly was the character, and the first season revolved around him. Promo shots for the show depicted Caruso in the foreground and other first-season characters set off behind him, Season 2 saw the departure of John Kelly, and the show was thereafter built around an ensemble cast. His co-stars included Jimmy Smits as Det, Bobby Simone, Rick Schroder as Det. Danny Sorenson, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Det, John Clark, Jr. John Kelly and Andy Sipowicz are detectives in the 15th squad. Sipowicz is the partner but is an alcoholic who drinks on the job as well as off-duty. Kelly has an affection for his partner but becomes increasingly exasperated by Sipowiczs behavior. In addition to his alcoholism, Sipowicz is a negative, misogynist. In the pilot, Sipowicz is shot by a suspect he had attacked and humiliated earlier and this leads to his decision to sober up and save his job. While Sipowicz is recuperating, the lieutenant, Arthur Fancy, teams Kelly with a young cop from Anti-Crime. Kellys personal life is as frenetic as his professional life and he is reluctantly going through a divorce from his wife, Laura, and is embarking on an affair with a uniformed cop, Janice Licalsi. To complicate matters further, Licalsis police officer father is on the payroll of mob boss Angelo Marino, Licalsi, in an attempt to protect her father, has been ordered to do a hit on Kelly

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American Broadcasting Company
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The network is headquartered on Columbus Avenue and West 66th Street in Manhattan, New York City. There are additional offices and production facilities elsewhere in New York City, as well as in Los Angeles and Burbank. Since 2007, when ABC Radio was sold to Citadel Broadcasting, ABC originally launched on October 12,1943, as a radio network, separated from and serving as the successor to the NBC Blue Network, which had been purchased by Edward J. Noble. It extended its operations to television in 1948, following in the footsteps of established broadcast networks CBS, in the mid-1950s, ABC merged with United Paramount Theatres, a chain of movie theaters that formerly operated as a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures. Leonard Goldenson, who had been the head of UPT, made the new television network profitable by helping develop, in 1996, most of Capital Cities/ABCs assets were purchased by The Walt Disney Company. The television network has eight owned-and-operated and over 232 affiliated television stations throughout the United States, most Canadians have access to at least one U. S. ABC News provides news and features content for radio stations owned by Citadel Broadcasting. In the 1930s, radio in the United States was dominated by three companies, the Columbia Broadcasting System, the Mutual Broadcasting System and the National Broadcasting Company. The last was owned by electronics manufacturer Radio Corporation of America, in 1938, the FCC began a series of investigations into the practices of radio networks and published its report on the broadcasting of network radio programs in 1940. The report recommended that RCA give up control of either NBC Red or NBC Blue, at that time, the NBC Red Network was the principal radio network in the United States and, according to the FCC, RCA was using NBC Blue to eliminate any hint of competition. Once Mutuals appeals against the FCC were rejected, RCA decided to sell NBC Blue in 1941, the newly separated NBC Red and NBC Blue divided their respective corporate assets. Investment firm Dillon, Read & Co. offered $7.5 million to purchase the network, Edward John Noble, the owner of Life Savers candy, drugstore chain Rexall and New York City radio station WMCA, purchased the network for $8 million. Due to FCC ownership rules, the transaction, which was to include the purchase of three RCA stations by Noble, would require him to resell his station with the FCCs approval, the Commission authorized the transaction on October 12,1943. Soon afterward, the Blue Network was purchased by the new company Noble founded, Noble subsequently acquired the rights to the American Broadcasting Company name from George B. Meanwhile, in August 1944, the West Coast division of the Blue Network, both stations were then managed by Don Searle, the vice-president of the Blue Networks West Coast division. The ABC Radio Network created its audience slowly, the network also became known for such suspenseful dramas as Sherlock Holmes, Gang Busters and Counterspy, as well as several mid-afternoon youth-oriented programs. S. From Nazi Germany after its conquest, to pre-record its programming, while its radio network was undergoing reconstruction, ABC found it difficult to avoid falling behind on the new medium of television. To ensure a space, in 1947, ABC submitted five applications for television station licenses, the ABC television network made its debut on April 19,1948, with WFIL-TV in Philadelphia becoming its first primary affiliate

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Bastard out of Carolina (film)
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Bastard out of Carolina is a 1996 film made by Showtime Networks, directed by Anjelica Huston. It is based on a novel by Dorothy Allison and adapted for the screen by Anne Meredith, jena Malone stars as a poor, physically abused and sexually molested girl. In 1997 the theatrical and video releases of the film were banned by Canadas Maritime Film Classification Board, the video was eventually granted release upon appeal. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival, Ruth Anne, nicknamed Bone Boatwright, is a young girl growing up in Greenville, South Carolina in the 1950s. Born out of wedlock to Anney, Bone lives with her mother, Anney loves Bone, but is still very much a child herself, tired out from working and needy for attention and adoration. Bone and Anney nearly always have to face the shame of the ILLEGITIMATE stamp on Bones birth certificate, later, when the county courthouse burns down, Anney is happy that a copy of Bones birth certificate no longer exists, much less has ILLEGITIMATE stamped on it. Glen first sexually assaults Bone, while waiting in the car for the birth of his child, Bone wakes her mother up in the middle of the night, barely able to walk because of the immense pain she is in. Anney takes her to the hospital, where the doctor berates Anney for beating the child so badly that her coccyx is broken, the only thing Bone says is Mama. Anney takes Bone to the car, leaving the hospital against the doctors wishes, Anney is saddened and angered by her new husbands behavior towards her child and takes Bone to her sister Almas house for Bone to get better. However, once Bone is better, Anney takes the back to Glen after he swears to never touch Bone again. While reading with her mama at the cafe, Anney asks Bone to go, Ruth asks Bone about Glen and if he has ever hurt her. Bone says no and the two grow close listening to music on the radio. After a visit from Dee Dee, Ruth dies of sickness, Bone is sent to live with her aunts, and eventually tells her mother that she is allowed to love Glen, but that Bone will never come home to him again. Eventually, Glen comes around while the aunts are out, trying to force her to come back, when she fights back, he punches and then rapes her. Glen stumbles out of the house after Anney, screaming his apologies, Anney yells at him to stay away and puts Bone into her car. When Glen gets his hand on Anney, she pushes him away, Glen then leans against the car door and repeatedly smashes his head against it, screaming for Anney to kill him. Instead, she strokes his head in forgiveness, believing he will never hurt Bone again, Bone is taken to the hospital by her Aunt Raylene. When a cop attempts to question her about who brutalized her, she refuses to reveal that it was Glen

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Showtime (TV network)
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The Showtime brand is used by a number of channels and platforms around the world, but primarily refers to the group of eight multiplex channels in the United States. As of July 2015, Showtimes programming is available to approximately 28.693 million television households in the United States, the channel and its corresponding networks are headquartered at Paramount Plaza on the northern end of New York Citys Broadway district. The following week on July 8, Showtime launched on Viacom Cablevisions system in Dublin, California, the first program and television special to be broadcast on Showtime was Celebration, a concert special featuring performances by Rod Stewart, Pink Floyd and ABBA. By the end of its first year on the air, Showtime had a total of 55,000 subscribers nationwide. On March 7,1978, Showtime became a nationally distributed service after it was uplinked to satellite, turning it into a competitor with HBO, in 1979, Viacom sold a 50% ownership interest in Showtime to the TelePrompTer Corporation. On July 4,1981, Showtime adopted a 24-hour programming schedule,1982 saw the premiere of Showtimes first made-for-cable movie Falcons Gold and its first original series and childrens program Faerie Tale Theatre. The three companies announced their agreement in principle to acquire interests in TMC on November 11,1982. Subsequently, in late December of that year, the U. S. Department of Justice launched a preliminary inquiry into the proposed partnership. On January 7,1983, Viacom International added itself as a partner, under the revised proposal, the four studios would each own a 22. 58% stake in the two networks, with American Express owning a 9. 68% minority interest. In addition, the consortium would appoint a management team separate from those employed by the two channels – which would continue to operate as separate services – to operate the joint venture, on August 10,1985, after Time Inc. and cable provider Tele-Communications Inc. The subsidiary was renamed Showtime Networks, Inc. in 1988, also in 1988, the company formed Showtime Event Television as a pay-per-view distributor of special event programming. In 1990, Showtime ventured into acquiring and premiering independent films exclusively for the channel as part of the 30-Minute Movie short film anthology series. One of its first premieres,12,01 PM, was nominated for an Academy Award, in the years that followed, Showtime expanded its acquisitions into the realm of feature-length fare, including the Adrian Lyne-directed 1997 remake of Lolita. In 2000, Showtime launched Showtime Interactive 24.7, a service that provided DVD-style interaction of its entertainment offerings. On June 14,2005, Viacom decided to separate itself into two companies, both of which would be controlled by Viacom parent National Amusements, amid stagnation of the stock price. A new company assumed the Viacom name kept Paramount Pictures, the MTV Networks and BET Networks cable divisions. Showtime broadcasts its primary and multiplex channels on both Eastern and Pacific Time Zone schedules and this planned extension to the multiplex did not come to fruition – although a third multiplex service, Showtime 3, would make its debut in 1996. Three additional themed channels made their debut in March 2001, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next, Showtime Family Zone, Showtime Next and Showtime Women do not have distribution by most pay television providers as extensive as the other Showtime multiplex channels

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The Last Don
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The Last Don is a novel by Mario Puzo, best known as the author of The Godfather. The story alternates between the industry and the Las Vegas Strip casinos, showing how the Mafia is linked to both. The last plan of Don Domenico Clericuzio, an aging Mafia boss, is to eventually have his family enter the legitimate world, twenty-five years later, his grandson Dante and grandnephew Croccifixio make their way through life, and the eighty-year-old Don is semi-retired. Cross, who holds a majority share in a Las Vegas casino, is supposed to become the strong arm of the family, however, when he refuses to take part in the murder of an old friend, Dante is left to be the sole tough guy. Dantes greed for power and blood lead him to plan the elimination of his relatives, cross, who is aware of being on the black list, anticipates Dantes plans and catches him in a trap. Having acted against the family, he waits for the Dons vendetta, the story concludes with the revelation that the Don had planned this outcome all along for the long-term survival of the family. The Last Don is the basis for the 1997 CBS television miniseries of the name written by Joyce Eliason and starring Joe Mantegna, Danny Aiello. In 1998, this was followed by The Last Don II, the Last Don III covers events following those described in the novel

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PBS
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The Public Broadcasting Service is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor. PBS is funded by member dues, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, government agencies, corporations, foundations. All proposed funding is subjected to a set of standards to ensure the program is free of influence from the funding source, since the mid-2000s, Roper polls commissioned by PBS have consistently placed the service as the most-trusted national institution in the United States. This arbitrary distinction is a frequent source of viewer confusion and it also operates National Datacast, a subsidiary which offers datacasting services via member stations, and provides additional revenue for PBS and its member stations. In 1973, it merged with Educational Television Stations, each station is charged with the responsibility of programming local content for their individual market or state that supplements content provided by PBS and other public television distributors. By contrast, PBS member stations pay fees for the acquired and distributed by the national organization. Under this relationship, PBS member stations have greater latitude in local scheduling than their commercial broadcasting counterparts, scheduling of PBS-distributed series may vary greatly depending on the market. This can be a source of tension as stations seek to preserve their localism, however, PBS has a policy of common carriage, which requires most stations to clear the national prime time programs on a common programming schedule to market them nationally more effectively. Management at former Los Angeles member KCET cited unresolvable financial and programming disputes among its reasons for leaving PBS after over 40 years in January 2011. Most PBS stations timeshift some distributed programs, once PBS accepts a program offered for distribution, PBS, rather than the originating member station, retains exclusive rebroadcasting rights during an agreed period. Suppliers retain the right to sell the program in non-broadcast media such as DVDs, books, in 1991, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting resumed production for most PBS shows that debuted prior to 1977, with the exceptions of Washington Week in Review and Wall Street Week. In 1994, The Chronicle of Philanthropy released the results of the largest study on the popularity and credibility of charitable, the strategy began that fall, with the intent to expand the in-program breaks to the remainder of the schedule if successful. In 2011, PBS released apps for iOS and Android to allow viewing of videos on mobile devices. An update in 2015 added Chromecast support, PBS initially struggled to compete with online media such as YouTube for market share. In a 2012 speech to 850 top executives from PBS stations, in the speech, later described as a “seminal moment” for public television, he laid out his vision for a new style of PBS digital video production. Station leadership rallied around his vision and Seiken formed PBS Digital Studios, which began producing educational but edgy videos, something Seiken called “PBS-quality with a YouTube sensibility. ”The studio’s first hit, in 2012, PBS began organizing much of its prime time programming around a genre-based schedule. PBS broadcasts childrens programming as part of the morning and afternoon schedule. Unlike its radio counterpart, National Public Radio, PBS does not have a program production arm or news division

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The West (film)
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The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents, The West, is a 1996 documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and featured Ken Burns as executive producer, the film was divided into eight episodes and originally aired on PBS in September 1996. Stephen Ives and Ken Burns had worked together on previous films, including The Civil War. In 1988, Ives created his own company, Insignia Films. In order to create The West, the crew traveled over 100,000 miles via airplane, conducted 72 interviews, visited 74 archives and collections. The films production was funded by General Motors, the films narrator, Peter Coyote, later also narrated Burns documentary film The National Parks. The West premiered on September 15,1996, on PBS, the film was split into episodes, with one episode being aired each night for eight consecutive nights. Episodes were cut to about 90 minutes each in length, for a length of over 12 hours for the entire film. The final episode aired on September 22,1996, when The West was released on VHS, the finale episode, One Sky Above Us, was divided into two one-hour episodes, titled Ghost Dance and One Sky Above Us. This VHS edition was released September 24,1996, PBS later released a five-disc DVD set of The West on September 30,2003. The West was well-received by both audiences and historians. Over 38 million viewers watched the film during its original airing, in 1997, the Organization of American Historians awarded The West its Erik Barnouw Award. Film and television critics also responded positively to The West, caryn James of The New York Times praised the film for its enthralling detail and authenticity, calling it fiercely and brilliantly rooted in fact. No one could ask for better television, official website The West at the Internet Movie Database

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David Hyde Pierce
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David Hyde Pierce is an American actor, director, and comedian. Pierce also has appeared on and directed for the stage and he won the 2007 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance in the musical Curtains. He also played Dr. Jones in When We Rise. Pierce was born David Pierce in Saratoga Springs and his father, George Hyde Pierce, was an aspiring actor, and his mother, Laura Marie, was an insurance agent. He added his middle name Hyde to avoid confusion with another actor named David Pierce, as a child, Pierce frequently played organ at the local Bethesda Episcopal Church. While attending Yale, Pierce performed in and directed student productions and he also directed the Gilbert & Sullivan Societys operetta Princess Ida. Among other roles Pierce played at Yale were in Waiting for Godot, Saint Joan, during this period he played Laertes in a popular off-Broadway production of Hamlet and made his Broadway debut in 1982 in Christopher Durangs Beyond Therapy. Pierces first big break came in the early 1990s with Norman Lears political comedy, The Powers That Be, in which Pierce played Theodore. Despite positive reviews critics, the show was canceled after a brief run. In part due to his physical resemblance to Kelsey Grammer. For his work on Frasier, Pierce was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Emmy a record eleven consecutive years, Pierce also appeared alongside Jodie Foster in Little Man Tate, with Anthony Hopkins in Oliver Stones Nixon, and with Ewan McGregor in Down With Love. He provided the voice for Doctor Doppler in Disneys 42nd animated feature, Treasure Planet, Slim, in 2001, he starred in the cult 1980s summer camp comedy Wet Hot American Summer as the befuddled astrophysicist, Prof. Henry Newman. In his role in Sleepless in Seattle, Pierce played the brother of Meg Ryans character, the movie was released just three months before the start of Frasier. In 2005, Pierce joined Tim Curry and others in the production of Spamalot. In August and September 2006, he starred as Lieutenant Frank Cioffi in Curtains, a new Kander and Ebb musical staged at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. In March 2007, Curtains opened on Broadway and on June 10,2007, in his acceptance speech, Pierce said the first words he spoke on a Broadway stage were, Im sorry, Im going to have to ask you to leave. On November 19,2007, Pierce was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts Degree from Niagara University in Lewiston, in 1999 he was awarded an Honorary Degree from Skidmore College, located in his native Saratoga Springs. In 2010, Pierce appeared in a revival of David Hirsons play La Bête directed by Matthew Warchus, the production debuted on Londons West End before moving to New York. In 2015 he directed the Manhattan Theater Club production of David Lindsay-Abaires play Ripcord Off-Broadway at City Center, Pierce appears in the Off-Broadway limited engagement of A Life by Adam Bock

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The Drew Carey Show
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The show was created by Carey, who had both stand-up comedy and writing experience, and Bruce Helford, who was once a writer for Roseanne. It was the first television show to have an episode simulcast on the Internet, produced by Mohawk Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, it debuted on September 13,1995, and ranked among the Top 30 programs for four seasons before sliding in popularity, ratings declined sharply during the final two seasons, and the last two episodes aired on September 8,2004. Drew Carey is a version of himself, a self-proclaimed everyman. Drew Carey has been quoted as saying his character is what the actor would have if he had not become an actor. He has a gang of friends who embark with him on his everyday trials, Drews friends include erudite but unambitious Lewis, excitable dimwitted Oswald and his friend Kate. In the final two seasons, Kate gets married and moves to Guam, in the same episode that introduces and develops Drews relationship with Kellie. For its first seven seasons, Drews workplace is the office of fictional Cleveland department store Winfred-Louder, one of his coworkers is Mimi Bobeck, a large woman with a clownish wardrobe, a lot of make-up, and a foul mutual dislike for Drew. The two eventually become closer, primarily because Mimi fell in love with and married Drews crossdressing heterosexual brother Steve, a frequently recurring character. In addition to his day job, Drew, along with Oswald, Lewis, and Kate, runs a business out of his garage, selling Buzz Beer. It becomes popular in the region and is sold at the groups hangout, the first seasons opening credits consisted of a caricature of Carey — consisting of his face and a yellow tie — singing the Robert McGuire-penned Moon Over Parma. In the first season, Drew and Mimi worked under Mr. Bell, other characters that appeared exclusively in this period were Drews hillbilly neighbor Jules and his family. Drews first girlfriend Lisa was introduced in season, as was Jay, Kates love interest who used to attend the same high school as Drew. Both characters lasted until Season 2, where they were written out of the show in the early episodes. Nine of the titles were related to chemistry in some way, with names such as The Joining of Two Unlike Elements Is a Mixture. However, this theme was abandoned by the end of the season, Moon Over Parma was phased out during the second season by Five OClock World sung by The Vogues. This season introduced openings that paid homage to music videos included the cast dancing and singing around the various sets of the show. In the third season, yet another change was made to Cleveland Rocks and this change lasted until the second wave of the show ended, with the finale of Season 7

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Kelsey Grammer
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Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, producer, director, writer, singer, and activist. Grammer is known for his portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms Cheers. Grammer has been married four times and has seven children, Grammer was two years old when his parents divorced. Grammer attended Pine Crest School, a preparatory school in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. After leaving Juilliard, he had an internship with the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in the late 1970s before a stint in 1980 at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. He made his Broadway debut in 1981 as Lennox in Macbeth, Grammer then played Michael Cassio in a Broadway revival of Othello, with James Earl Jones and Christopher Plummer. In 1983 he performed on the demo of the Stephen Sondheim–James Lapine production Sunday in the Park with George, in 2000, Grammer again played Macbeth on Broadway, in a production that closed after only 10 days. Grammer originated the roles of Charles Frohman and Captain Hook in the Broadway premiere of the musical Finding Neverland in March 2015 and he returned to the stage from January 19,2016, to April 3. His television career began in the early 1980s when he portrayed Stephen Smith in the NBC miniseries Kennedy, Grammer came to broader public attention as Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcom Cheers. The character became the center of the spin-off Frasier, one of the most successful spin-offs in TV history. In addition to starring, he directed more than 30 episodes, especially during the second half of the series. Frasier was nominated for and won awards during its 11-year run. In 2001, he negotiated a US$700, 000-per-episode salary for Frasier and his 20-year run playing Dr. Frasier Crane ties a length set by James Arness in playing Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke from 1955 to 1975 but was surpassed by Richard Belzer in playing Det. John Munch on Homicide, Life on the Street and Law & Order, Frasier Crane also had a crossover appearance in 1993 Wings episode Planes, Trains, & Visiting Cranes. In 2005, Grammer returned to television and he produced and appeared in an American adaptation of the British show The Sketch Show, which aired on Fox. The main cast consisted of Malcolm Barrett, Kaitlin Olson, Mary Lynn Rajskub and Paul F. Tompkins, Grammer appeared in only short opening and closing segments in each episode. Many of the sketches from the British version were re-created, such as the California Dreamin, English Course, only six episodes of the show were made, and it was canceled after only four of them had aired. In 2007, Grammer starred with Patricia Heaton in the American sitcom Back to You and it was canceled by Fox after its first season

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John Lithgow
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John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, singer, comedian and author. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame and his performances in The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment each earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Supporting Actor. On the stage, he has appeared in many Broadway productions including the adaptation of Sweet Smell of Success. In 2007, he made his Royal Shakespeare Company debut as Malvolio in Neil Bartletts production of Twelfth Night. He has also recorded music, such as the 1999 album of music, Singin in the Bathtub. His work for children has earned him Grammy Award nominations and two Parents Choice Silver Honor Awards, Lithgow was born in Rochester, New York. His mother, Sarah Jane, was a retired actress and his father, Arthur Washington Lithgow III, was a theatrical producer and director who ran the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey. His father was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, to an American family of Scottish and English descent, Lithgow is descended from Mayflower passenger and colonial governor William Bradford. Lithgow attended Harvard College, and graduated with an A. B. magna cum laude in 1967, in history and he lived in Adams House as an undergraduate. Lithgow later served on Harvards Board of Overseers, Lithgow credits a performance at Harvard of Gilbert and Sullivans Utopia Limited with helping him decide to become an actor. After graduation, Lithgow won a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, also, after graduation, he served as the Director of the Arts and Literature Department at WBAI, the Pacifica radio station in New York City. In 1973, Lithgow debuted on Broadway in David Storeys The Changing Room, the following year he starred opposite Lynn Redgrave in My Fat Friend, and in 1976 he starred opposite Meryl Streep in Arthur Millers A Memory of Two Mondays. He was nominated for the Best Actor Tony Awards for Requiem for a Heavyweight, in 2002, Lithgow won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his portrayal of J. J. Hunsecker in the Broadway adaptation of the 1957 film Sweet Smell of Success, in 2005, Lithgow was elected into the American Theater Hall of Fame for his work on Broadway. He was also nominated for a Best Leading Actor in a Musical Tony for Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, in 2004 and 2007, Lithgow debuted Carnival of the Animals elephant character — nurse Mabel Buntz — with the New York City Ballet and Houston Ballet, respectively. In 2007, Lithgow played Malvolio in the Royal Shakespeare Companys production of Twelfth Night, at The Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in 2008 through 2009, Lithgow played Joe Keller in a Broadway revival of Arthur Millers All My Sons. Lithgow starred alongside Jennifer Ehle in Douglas Carter Beanes comedy Mr & Mrs Fitch presented Off-Broadway by Second Stage Theatre from February 22,2010 to April 4,2010. Lithgow returned to Broadway as Joseph Alsop in the Manhattan Theatre Club production of David Auburns new play The Columnist, the National Theatre tempted Lithgow to appear on the London stage in the winter of 2012/13 as Police Magistrate Aeneas Posket in a revival of Arthur Wing Pineros The Magistrate

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Rip Torn
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Elmore Rual Torn Jr. known within his family and professionally as Rip Torn, is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian. Torn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his part as Marsh Turner in Cross Creek and his work includes the role of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show, for which he was nominated for six Emmy Awards, winning in 1996. Torn also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and was nominated for a Satellite Award in 1997 as well. Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas, on February 6,1931, the son of Elmore Rual Torn Sr. an agriculturalist and economist, the family is of German, Austrian, and Czech/Moravian ancestry. The nickname Rip is a tradition in the Torn family. Torn was a member of the Texas A&M University Corps of Cadets, although he graduated from the University of Texas, after graduation, he served in the Military Police in the United States Army. At the University of Texas, Torn studied drama with Ben Iden Payne, while in New York, Torn introduced his cousin Sissy Spacek to the entertainment business, and helped her enroll in the Actors Studio. One of Torns earliest roles was in Pork Chop Hill, portraying the brother-in-law of Gregory Pecks character and he also had an uncredited role in A Face in the Crowd as Barry Mills. In 1957, Torn portrayed Jody in an episode of The Restless Gun. In 1964, Torn appeared as Eddie Sanderson in the episode The Secret in the Stone in The Eleventh Hour, in 1965, in the film The Cincinnati Kid, he played Slade, a corrupt New Orleans millionaire who pressures Steve McQueen during a high-stakes poker game. On television that year, Torn portrayed Colonel Royce in the episode The Lorelei of 12 O-Clock High, since then, he has been a character actor in numerous films. Jack Nicholson played Hanson instead in a career-launching performance, in 1972, Torn won rave reviews for his portrayal of a country & western singer in the cult film Payday. He co-starred with singer David Bowie in a 1975 science-fiction film, Torn received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in 1983s Cross Creek as a poor neighbor of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings in the orange groves of Florida. He portrayed a Southern senator in 1979s The Seduction of Joe Tynan, opposite Alan Alda and Meryl Streep, in 1982, Torn played a role as a holy man in the sword-and-sorcery movie The Beastmaster. A comedy with Bette Midler, and appeared as an executive in Airplane II. He co-starred with John Candy as a man who helps a tourist win a race in the 1985 comedy Summer Rental. In 1988, he ventured into directing with The Telephone, the screenplay was written by Terry Southern and Harry Nilsson and the film was produced by their company Hawkeye. The story, which focused on an unhinged, out-of-work actor, had written with Robin Williams in mind

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Andre Braugher
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Andre Braugher is an American actor. On the TNT show Men of a Certain Age, and Captain Raymond Holt on the Golden Globe-winning comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Braugher, the youngest of four children, was born July 1,1962, in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Sally, a worker, and Floyd Braugher. He attended St. Ignatius College Prep and later graduated from Stanford University with a B. A. in theater in 1984 and he then attended the Juilliard Schools Drama Division, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1988. He was acknowledged as the Most Outstanding Theater Student at graduation, braughers first film role was in the 1989 film Glory as Thomas Searles, a free, educated black man from the North who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army. He played Kojaks side-kick in the late-1980s ABC television film revival of Kojak and he subsequently moved on to a role on the television series Homicide, Life on the Street as Detective Frank Pembleton, a self-righteous, fiery, unyielding, Jesuit-educated police detective. Playing opposite Kyle Secor, Braugher became the breakout star. He received Television Critics Association awards for achievement in drama in 1997 and 1998. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1996 and 1998 and he left Homicide after its sixth season but returned for the reunion television film. He has also co-starred in the films City of Angels, Frequency, in 1997, he was selected by People as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. In 2000, he played the role as Ben Gideon in the series Gideons Crossing. In 2002, Braugher narrated the award-winning, PBS-broadcast documentary Muhammad, Legacy of a Prophet, produced by Unity Productions Foundation and he played Detective Marcellus Washington in the TV series Hack from 2002-2004. In 2006, Braugher starred as Nick Atwater in the mini-series Thief for FX Networks and he portrayed General Hager in the 2007 film Fantastic Four, Rise of the Silver Surfer. Braugher appeared on the TV series House, M. D. as Dr. Nolan and he also appeared in the TNT series Men of a Certain Age, for which he was nominated twice as Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. He also voiced the villain Darkseid in the film, Superman/Batman. Braugher co-starred in the Manhattan Theatre Clubs production of The Whipping Man, off-Broadway and he narrated the introduction to the Olympic Games on NBC from 2006 to 2010, succeeding James Earl Jones in the role. Braugher also narrated James Pattersons Alex Cross book Cross Fire and he has a recurring role as defense attorney Bayard Ellis on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit, and appeared as the lead character, Capt. Marcus Chaplin, in ABCs military drama TV series Last Resort. Braugher married Ami Brabson in 1991, an actress who later played Pembletons wife Mary on Homicide, the couple have three sons, Michael, Isaiah, and John Wesley

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Gillian Anderson
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Gillian Leigh Anderson, OBE, is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Among other honours, Anderson has won a Primetime Emmy Award, after beginning her career on stage, Anderson achieved international recognition for her role as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully on the American sci-fi drama series The X-Files for all ten seasons. Her film work includes the dramas The Mighty Celt, The Last King of Scotland, Shadow Dancer and she will be appearing as Media in the upcoming TV series American Gods. Anderson is the co-writer of The EarthEnd Saga novel trilogy and the guide book WE. Aside from film and TV, Anderson has taken on the stage, Anderson has been active in supporting numerous charities and humanitarian organizations. She is a spokesperson for the Neurofibromatosis Network and a co-founder of South African Youth Education for Sustainability. Anderson was appointed an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2016 for her services to drama. Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Rosemary Posie Alyce, a computer analyst, and Homer Edward Ed Anderson III and she is of English, German, and Irish ancestry. Soon after her birth, her parents moved to Puerto Rico for 15 months, then to London, the family relocated so that her father could attend the London Film School. She spent her growing up in north Londons Crouch End. She was a pupil of Coleridge Primary School, when Anderson was 11 years old, her family moved again, this time to Grand Rapids, Michigan. They continued to have a flat in London, where she spent her summers, Anderson later said that she has always intended to return to England. In Grand Rapids, she attended Fountain Elementary and then City High-Middle School, following the move to Grand Rapids, Anderson went through a rebellious stage, experimenting with drugs, dating a much older boyfriend, and having a punk appearance. She was put in therapy at the age of 14, Anderson listened to bands such as Dead Kennedys and Skinny Puppy. She was voted by her classmates, class clown, most bizarre girl and she was, in fact, arrested on graduation night for breaking and entering into her high school in an attempt to glue the locks of the doors. She later managed to reduce the charges to trespassing and she also served as a student intern at the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre & School of Theatre Arts. After graduating high school in 1986, she attended The Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, Anderson also participated in the National Theatre of Great Britains summer program at Cornell University. Anderson is the eldest of three siblings and her brother Aaron – who was diagnosed with neurofibromatosis – died in 2011 of a brain tumor, at the age of 30

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David Duchovny
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David William Duchovny is an American actor, writer, producer, director, novelist, and singer-songwriter. He is known for playing FBI Agent Fox Mulder on the television series The X-Files and writer Hank Moody on the television series Californication, both of which have earned him Golden Globe awards. Duchovny appeared in both of the two X-Files films, the 1998 science fiction-thriller of the name and the supernatural-thriller The X-Files. He executive produced and starred in the historically based cop drama Aquarius, Duchovny was born in New York, New York, in 1960. He is the son of Margaret Meg, an administrator and teacher, and Amram Ami Duchovny. Duchovnys mother is a Lutheran emigrant from Aberdeen, Scotland and his father was Jewish, Duchovnys paternal grandfather was a Jewish immigrant from Berdychiv, Russian Empire, and Duchovnys paternal grandmother was a Jewish immigrant from Russian Poland. His father dropped the h in his last name to avoid the sort of mispronunciations he encountered while serving in the Army, Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys, both are in Manhattan. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton University in 1982 with an A. B. in English literature and he was a member of Charter Club, one of the universitys eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received a mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Becketts Early Novels. He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton and he received a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph. D. that remains unfinished. The title of his doctoral thesis was Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction. Duchovny appeared in an advertisement for Löwenbräu beer in 1987, the next year he appeared in two scenes in Working Girl. He had a role as a transvestite DEA agent on the series Twin Peaks and played the narrator. In 1992, he played the role of Rollie Totheroh, in the biographic film Chaplin, directed by Richard Attenborough and based on the life of Charlie Chaplin. In 1993, Duchovny began starring in the science fiction series The X-Files, as FBI Special Agent Fox Mulder, the show evolved into a cult hit and quickly became one of The Fox Networks first major television hits. According to X-Files creator Chris Carter, Duchovny turned out to be one of the people he knew. After getting the role, Duchovny thought the show would not last for long or that it would not make as much impact as it did, executive producer Frank Spotnitz called Duchovny amazingly smart

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Anthony Edwards
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Anthony Charles Edwards is an American actor and director. Additionally, he has appeared in movies and television shows, including Top Gun, Zodiac, Miracle Mile, Revenge of the Nerds, Planes. Edwards was born in Santa Barbara, California, the son of Erika Kem, a painter, and Peter Edwards. He has two sisters, Heidi and Ann-Marie, and two older brothers, Peter and Jeffrey. Edwards was encouraged by his parents to attend college before pursuing his interest in acting, Edwards early work included a co-starring role in the TV series It Takes Two with Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin as his parents and Helen Hunt as his sister. He made a cameo in the hit 1982 film Fast Times at Ridgemont High as Stoner Bud. In 1984, he starred in the hit comedy film Revenge of the Nerds playing the role of Gilbert Lowe. He reprised the role of Gilbert for a few scenes in the sequel Revenge of the Nerds II, Nerds in Paradise. It was Edwards role as LTJG Nick Goose Bradshaw alongside Tom Cruise in the 1986 film Top Gun that brought his first widespread public acknowledgement and his character, who died in an aviation accident, was among the most prominent and popular in the film. He appeared as an ill patient in Hawks alongside Timothy Dalton. He starred in the Cold War era comedy Gotcha. as a student who gets wrapped up in spy antics. He starred in the 1990 movie Downtown with Penelope Ann Miller and he also played widowed veterinarian Chase Matthews, father of Edward Furlongs character, in the horror film Pet Sematary Two, a sequel to the film Pet Sematary in 1989. In 1992 and 1993 he played Mike Monroe in ten episodes of Northern Exposure, Edwards best known role is as Dr. Mark Greene on the long-running TV series ER, whom he portrayed from its premiere in 1994 to the end of the 8th season in 2002. The series also afforded Edwards his first opportunity to direct, Edwards desire to pursue directing led to his request to be written out of the series. He reportedly earned $35 million for three seasons on ER, which made him one of televisions highest-paid actors, Edwards and his co-star George Clooney were the ones who suggested doing an episode of ER live. The fourth-season premiere, Ambush, was performed twice, with an East Coast. Edwards has not won a Primetime Emmy, though he has nominated four times. He won a Golden Globe Award For Best Performance by an Actor-In a TV Series after being nominated four times, and he has two Screen Actors Guild Awards

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ER (TV series)
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It was produced by Constant c Productions and Amblin Television, in association with Warner Bros. ER follows the life of the emergency room of fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. The show became the longest-running primetime medical drama in American television history and it won 23 Primetime Emmy Awards, including the 1996 Outstanding Drama Series award, and received 124 Emmy nominations, which makes it the most nominated drama program in history. ER won 116 awards in total, including the Peabody Award, in 1974, author Michael Crichton wrote a screenplay based on his own experiences as a resident physician in a busy hospital emergency room. The screenplay went nowhere and Crichton focused on other topics, in 1990, he published the novel Jurassic Park, and in 1993 began a collaboration with director Steven Spielberg on the film adaptation of the book. Crichton and Spielberg then turned to ER, but decided to film the story as a pilot for a television series rather than as a feature film. Spielbergs Amblin Entertainment provided John Wells as the executive producer. The script used to shoot the pilot was virtually unchanged from what Crichton had written in 1974. Because of a lack of time and money necessary to build a set, the episode of ER was filmed in the former Linda Vista Hospital in Los Angeles. After Spielberg had joined as a producer, NBC ordered six episodes, ER premiered opposite a Monday Night Football game on ABC and did surprisingly well. Then we moved it to Thursday and it just took off, ERs success surprised the networks and critics alike, as David E. Kelleys new medical drama Chicago Hope was expected to crush the new series. Crichton remained executive producer until his death in November 2008, although he was credited as one throughout that entire final season. Wells, the other initial executive producer, served as showrunner for the first three seasons. He was one of the shows most prolific writers and became a director in later years. Lydia Woodward was a part of the first season production team and she took over as showrunner for the fourth season while Wells focused on the development of other series, including Trinity, Third Watch, and The West Wing. She left her executive position at the end of the sixth season. Joe Sachs, who was a writer and producer of the series, believed keeping a commitment to medical accuracy was important, Wed bend the rules. A medication that would take 10 minutes to work might take 30 seconds instead, a 12- to 24-hour shift gets pushed into 48 minutes

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Dennis Franz
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He also portrayed Lt. Norman Buntz in the similar NBC series Hill Street Blues and its short-lived spinoff, Beverly Hills Buntz. Franz was born in Maywood, Illinois, the son of German immigrants Eleanor, a worker, and Franz Schlachta. He has two sisters, Heidi and Marlene. Franz is a graduate of Proviso East High School, Wilbur Wright College, after graduating from college, Franz was drafted into the United States Army. He served eleven months with the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st in Vietnam, Franz began his acting career at Chicagos Organic Theater Company. Although he has in the past performed Shakespeare, his appearance led to his being typecast early in his career as a police officer and he has also guest starred in shows such as The A-Team. Other major roles were on the television series Hill Street Blues in which he played two characters over the run of that show, Franz first played the role of Detective Sal Benedetto, a corrupt cop in the 1983 season, who later kills himself. Due to his popularity with fans, he returned in 1985 as Lt. Norm Buntz and he also starred in the short-lived Beverly Hills Buntz as the same character. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Franz worked regularly with directors Brian De Palma and he appeared in three of Altmans films from this period, and five of De Palmas, most prominently as a low budget movie director in Body Double. Franz went on to win four Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Andy Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, the character of Sipowicz was ranked #23 on Bravos 100 Greatest TV Characters list. Portrait of an Ass-Grabber, in which Franz portrays Homer, on May 11,2001, Franz was a contestant on a celebrity edition of the hit television game show, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, winning $US250,000 for his charity. Franz also was a spokesman for Nextel in the early 2000s. The concept was that Franz refused to do the commercials, saying they were not something he did and it would be his last film as he spent the final years of his career on NYPD Blue. Franz has stayed out of the spotlight since 2005 to focus on his private life. He has told Access Hollywood he would be interested in returning to acting if given the right opportunity and he made a special appearance at the 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards. In 1995 Franz married Joanie Zeck, whom he met in 1982 and he is the stepfather of Zecks two daughters, Tricia and Krista, from a previous marriage. Dennis Franz at the Internet Movie Database Dennis Franz interview video at the Archive of American Television

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Joe Pantoliano
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Joseph Peter Joe Pantoliano, often referred to by his nickname Joey Pants, is an American actor. Marshal Cosmo Renfro in both The Fugitive and U. S. Marshals films, Pantoliano was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of Italian American parents Mary, a bookie and seamstress, and Dominic Monk Pantoliano, a hearse driver and factory foreman. He attended HB Studio, and studied extensively with actors John Lehne and he first grew to fame as Guido the Killer Pimp in Risky Business, and continued to rise in 1985 when he appeared as the villainous Francis Fratelli in teen classic The Goonies. He gained fame amongst a new generation as Cypher in the 1999 landmark sci-fi film The Matrix and he also played Deputy Marshal Cosmo Renfro in The Fugitive along with Tommy Lee Jones, and reprised the role in the sequel U. S. Marshals. He is known for his portrayals of criminals, criminal investigators, detectives, in 2003, Pantoliano replaced Stanley Tucci in the Broadway play Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune. That same year he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for The Sopranos, in 2013, he was cast as Yogi Berra in the Broadway production of Bronx Bombers, but dropped out during rehearsals due to creative differences. When not acting, Pantoliano also writes and he is the author of two memoirs, Whos Sorry Now, The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy and Asylum, Hollywood Tales From My Great Depression, Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery and Being My Mothers Son. In the latter, he writes about his addictions to alcohol, food, sex, Vicodin, Pantoliano lives with his wife, former model Nancy Sheppard, and their four children. He was introduced to his wife by his friend, actress Samantha Phillips and he claims that his recent film Canvas was what helped him come to terms with his depression. Rather than hide his struggle from the public, he has chosen to speak out about it to some of the stigmas that are commonly associated with mental illness. He founded an organization, No Kidding, Me Too. to unite members of the entertainment industry in educating the public about mental illness. The title comes from the response he’s heard all too often after divulging how mental illness affected him, he’s also shot a documentary called No Kidding, Me Too. I thought it was very revealing, official website Joe Pantoliano at the Internet Movie Database Joe Pantoliano interview with ABILITY Magazine

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Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Bill Nye the Science Guy is an American half-hour live action science program that originally aired from September 10,1993, to June 20,1998, and was hosted by Bill Nye. The show aired on PBS on October 10,1994 to March 1,1999 and was syndicated to local stations. The show aired for a total of 100 half-hour episodes spanning over five seasons, nyes TV persona is a tall and slender scientist wearing a blue lab coat and a bow-tie. He combines the science of everyday things with fast-paced action. Each half-hour show begins with an open, where Nye was introducing the episodes topic. In later seasons, the song was cut short by a static screen. After the opening credits, announcer Pat Cashman would say Brought to you by, parodies of movies and television shows configure the facts of the episodes topic. Each episode also featured Nye in diverse places, focusing on the episodes topic, where an interesting factoid related to the episodes topic was presented. Luna Van Dyke, Private Detective was one of the segments on the show. The segments feature private detective Luna Van Dyke focusing on the story that is related to the episodes topic, most half-hour episodes contain a mock song parody and music video in the Soundtrack of Science by Not That Bad Records. Not that bad is a catchphrase that Nye will often say in those episodes and this is usually the last segment of each episode. Each half-hour show ends with Nye saying, Well, thats our show, if youll excuse me, Ive got some. Before explaining his departure in a description of an activity on topic. After that, an announcer says Produced in association with the National Science Foundation. The credits sometimes rolled next to a series of outtakes from the episode, other times, outtakes are shown at the time they actually happened. Aside from Nye himself, one of the things about Bill Nye the Science Guy is its theme song. An electric guitar riff is heard during the theme song. The sound and speed fluctuations of the voice were accomplished through a vocoder, Nye, McKenna and Gottlieb all met while McKenna was a producer on Almost Live

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Wishbone (TV series)
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Wishbone is a half-hour live-action childrens television show that was produced from 1995 to 1998 and broadcast on PBS Kids. The shows title character is a Jack Russell Terrier, Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the character of stories from classic literature. He was known as the dog with a big imagination. Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak, the characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whichever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog. The show won four Daytime Emmys, a Peabody Award, Wishbones exterior shots were filmed on the backlot of Lyrick Studioss teen division Big Feats. Entertainment in Allen, Texas, and its interior shots were filmed on a stage in a 50,000 square foot warehouse in Plano. Additional scenes were filmed in Grapevine, Texas, the show also inspired several book series. Altogether, there are more than fifty books featuring Wishbone, which were published even after the TV series ended production, reruns of the show continued to air on some PBS affiliates. In 2006, when a PBS Kids Go, digital channel was announced, PBS planned to air Wishbone on the channel. However, when the channel was canceled, Wishbone returned in reruns on the PBS national program service. Wishbone clips came to the PBS Kids Go. website, the return to PBS lasted a short time, though some PBS affiliates continued to air Wishbone until their license to do so ran out. The show continued to air in reruns until August 31,2001, a standard episode of Wishbone consists of an opening scene, introducing Wishbones and his familys current situation. When one of the main characters decides to get involved in the act, Wishbone flashes to a famous work of literature it reminds him of, usually with him playing the lead role. Wishbone may not play the role if the character is difficult to relate to or is female. By the end of stories, the real-life situation usually follows the work of literature closely. One 90-minute movie was released, Wishbones Dog Days of the West, the series also featured a clip show episode called Picks of the Litter. Wishbone, A well-read dog who sees parallels between classic literature and the dilemmas he and his friends face every day

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Arthur (TV series)
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Arthur is a Canadian/American animated educational television series for children, created by Cookie Jar Group and WGBH for PBS. The television series is based on the Arthur book series, which are written, WGBH Boston along with Cinar began production of the animated series in 1994, and aired its first episode on October 7,1996. Since its debut, the show has broadcast 225 thirty-minute-long episodes, with 225 episodes, Arthur is the second-longest active running show on PBS Kids, behind only Sesame Street. It is the longest running animated television series. A pilot for the spin-off series Postcards from Buster aired in December 2003 as a season 8 episode of Arthur, Arthur often deals with important issues families face such as asthma, dyslexia, cancer, diabetes, and Asperger syndrome. It also encourages reading and relationships with family and friends by explaining that people have different personalities, Arthur became one of the highest-rated shows on PBS Kids for several years since its debut, averaging almost 10 million viewers weekly in the U. S. It is the childrens animated series in the U. S. In late 2015, it was announced that the series had been renewed for a 20th and 21st season, Arthur Read, the seriess titular character, is an anthropomorphic eight-year-old brown aardvark who lives in the fictional town of Elwood City. He is a student at Lakewood Elementary School. Arthurs family includes two home-working parents, his father David and his mother Jane, his two sisters, Dora Winifred, who is in preschool, and Kate, who is still an infant. Arthur also has several friends who come from ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. Elwood City is portrayed as a suburban area which bears a strong resemblance to the Boston area. Furthermore, Elwood Citys professional baseball team, the Elwood City Grebes, the episode The Curse of the Grebes in Season 10 clearly references baseball lore such as Curse of the Bambino. In another episode, the Elwood City Airport is shown to have a name that represents Bostons Logan International Airport, crown City, as featured in other episodes, is apparently a fictional representation of New York City. In one episode, it is inferred that an ice hockey team wearing the WGBH logo, there are also firm references to Browns hometown of Erie, Pennsylvania. Most notably, the shopping mall in the TV series is called Mill Creek Mall. In 1994, Marc Brown was approached by WGBH and PBS about the possibility of adapting the Arthur books into a television series. Although the program is written and produced by WGBH of Boston, the production of the animation and voice acting are done in Montreal, Toronto, South Korea

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Guest appearance of mascots including characters from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle, SpongeBob SquarePants and Paw Patrol from Nickelodeon during the Nickelodeon Slime Cup SG event held in City Square Mall, Singapore in July, 2017

Nickelodeon Studios as viewed from the Hard Rock Cafe in March 2004 before it closed.

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Showtime logo, used from 1984 to 1997; a 3D circle containing a TV screen (which was originally used as the channel's primary logo dating back to 1979) was used alongside this logo from 1984 to 1990. This logo was also used on Showtime Australia until 2009.